Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1.

“ [340] now flaunts the breeze here will float over the dome of the old Capitol at Washington before the first of May. Let them try Southern chivalry and test the extent of Southern resources, and it may float eventually over Faneuil Hall in Boston.”¹ Already Hooper, the Secretary of the Montgomery Convention,² had replied to the question of the agent of the Associated Press in Washington, “What is the feeling there?” by saying:--

Davis answers, rough and curt,
     With mortar, Paixhan, and petard;
“Sumter is ours and nobody hurt.
     We tender Old Abe our Beau-regard.”

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Already General Pillow, of Tennessee, had hastened to Montgomery and offered the Confederate Government ten thousand volunteers from his

Street view in Montgomery in 1861.--the State House.

State; and assurances had come by scores from all parts of the “Confederacy,” and of the Border Slave-labor States, that ample aid in men and money would be given to the “Southern cause.” And an adroit knave named Sanders, who had been a conspicuous politician of the baser sort in the North, and who was in Montgomery as the self-constituted representative of the “Northern Democracy,” “drinking with the President [Davis], shaking hands and conversing with crowds at the hotels, and having long ”